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Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

IP connectivity between oil rigs, platforms and offshore vessels in the Gulf of Mexico

November 9, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Stratos and Alcatel-Lucent team to enhance communications for oil and gas workers in the Gulf of Mexico Tapping into a major opportunity to expand and enhance offshore communications for the oil and gas industry,Stratos Global and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)are working together to boost IP connectivity between oil rigs, platforms and offshore vessels [...]

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Alcatel-Lucent Gets Verizon Wireless Contract for ongoing 3G network expansion and LTE build out

November 4, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Verizon Wireless and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced a four-year agreement expected to be worth US$4 billion for Alcatel-Lucent wireless network architecture and services to support Verizon Wireless’ ongoing 3G network expansion and 4G/LTE network build out. Alcatel-Lucent continues to be a major Verizon Wireless’ network infrastructure supplier and the agreement builds [...]

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DSL Phantom Mode named “Broadband Innovation of the Year”

October 27, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has received the Broadband InfoVision Award in the “Broadband Innovation of the Year” category for i ts DSL Phantom Mode breakthrough. Building on VDSL2 Bonding, Vectoring and the analogue “phantom mode” concept, Alcatel-Lucent’s research arm Bell Labs has successfully demonstrated how this technology boosts transmission speeds attainable over traditional [...]

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Alcatel-Lucent’s new ISAM release

October 26, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) created the High Leverage Network™ architecture to enable service providers to boost revenues while increasing capacity and reducing costs. Announced today, the latest release of Alcatel-Lucent’s Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM) further extends this architecture and its benefits to the access network, enhancing the function of the largest installed [...]

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World’s first call over LTE network (Long Term Evolution)

September 2, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) achieved an industry first by successfully completing a data call using a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband network operating at Band 14 , the spectrum earmarked for public safety agencies in the United States. The call demonstrates the readiness of the network to support current public safety applications [...]

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OpenPlug Acquired by Alcatel-Lucent

September 1, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has acquired the mobile software and applications development tools vendor OpenPlug. By acquiring OpenPlug, ALU deepens its role in the applications space by delivering, as part of its integrated suite of developer tools, a platform where application developers can write an application once, which will then be translated to [...]

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Alcatel-Lucent remains the leader in the CDMA space

August 10, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent remains the leader in the CDMA space according to Dell’Oro’s latest Mobility Infrastructure report. Not only does Dell’Oro place Alcatel-Lucent as the historical leader in CDMA (leading in CDMA revenues since 3Q’01), the industry analyst firm also acknowledges that Alcatel-Lucent has reinforced its number one position on a quarterly basis, growing its market share [...]

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Gartner “Strong Positive” for Genesys

August 3, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced that Genesys, its customer service software arm, based on evaluation of the Genesys interactive voice response (IVR) solution, iCFD (intelligent customer front door), received a “Strong Positive,” the highest rating possible, in Gartner’s MarketScope for IVR Systems and Enterprise Voice Portals* report¹. “Businesses focused on providing a [...]

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HKBN offers 1 Gbps broadband services to residential customers (US$26/month)

July 6, 2010 Alcatel-Lucent News ( NYSE: ALU )

Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited (HKBN), a wholly-owned subsidiary of City Telecom (H.K.) Limited (SEHK: 1137 and NASDAQ: CTEL), has launched a symmetric 1 Gbps broadband servicesAt US$26/month offering – powered by Alcatel-Lucent’s gigabit passive optical network (GPON) solution. , the offer, which targets Hong Kong’s residential market, is amongst the world’s best “value for [...]

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